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Word: cats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cat and the Canary (Paramount). This old chiller-diller, which has as many lives as a cat, haunted Broadway for a long run, has twice before been made into a movie. Paramount has brushed off some of the cobwebs, draped some bigger, stickier ones for harassed Heroine Paulette Goddard to paw through in the secret passageways, added some new wisecracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...post-mortem instructions command his loving heirs to foregather at nightfall in his gloomy mansion amongst the bayous, where they can be scared out of such wits as they possess after being left out of his will. The frolic is furthered by a rubber-masked murderer, The Cat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...there is a movie fan living who does not know who killed Lawyer Crosby in the wall behind the bookcase, The Cat and the Canary has been imitated often enough for even cinemamateurs to detect The Cat by its feline smile, before it gets the bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...speech, but "The University" wouldn't let him because it said he always lied to the government; but people said the real reason was because he had a black beard, so "The University" wasn't liberal. But the next day "The University" announced that because everyone wanted to cat their turkey on a different day, and because people should do what they wanted to do, it would serve turkey every day for a month and a day. And this was very liberal, and much better than the President and the Governor, who would only let people eat turkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat Book | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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